On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:43:34 -0500, Craig Boston <craig_at_xfoil.gank.org> wrote: > Hi, all, > > Just wondering if anyone has had any experiences (good or bad) with the > new nvidia driver on CURRENT? So far I've found it to be pretty > unstable... I tried reverting back to 5.1-RELEASE and recompiling the > driver (i'm installing it from the port), but no luck. On 5.1-RELEASE and old 5.1-CURRENT, I can use NVIDIA's AGP GART Driver until one or two weeks ago of 5.1-CURRENT, I am not able to use it any longer. It will lock my machine very hard, which only way I can do is turn the power off then boot into single to disable it. Current, I am stuck with FreeBSD's AGP GART driver (agp.ko) with Nvidia and it works great, but the perferomce descrease. NVIDIA's AGP GART Driver = The glxgears will go over 3600 fps. FreeBSD's AGP GART driver = The glxgears will go over 2500 fps. I really have no idea how I can debug, because it only will lock up the machine very hard. ============================ nvidia0_at_pci1:5:0: class=0x030000 card=0x88911462 chip=0x028110de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' device = 'GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP 8x [NV28]' class = display subclass = VGA ============================ Note: The problem is same on old and new of Nvidia driver, they both behave same. Cheers, Mezz > It works fine in 2D mode, but running GL apps sometimes causes kernel > panics. Running glxinfo and xvinfo repeatedly is a quick way to cause > strange things to happen -- segmentation faults, bus errors, and kernel > panics. The backtraces I've gotten are pretty worthless since the panic > happens in a completely random place every time (to date, inside the VM, > in ATA, USB, and a couple other places but almost never in the NVidia > module itself). Smells like kernel memory corruption to me. > > My setup is a PCI Geforce2 MX and a PCI TNT2. I'm using standard multi- > head (NOT Xinerama). The port is compiled with WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, though > it shouldn't make a difference. I do have an AGP Matrox card in the > system, but disabling and/or removing it seems to make no difference. > > The only thing slightly strange is that I had to put Options > "UseInt10Module" "on" in XF86Config to soft-boot the TNT2. Otherwise it > had a big solid-colored block covering approximately 1/3 of the screen... > > Anyway, just curious if this is typical this driver on 5.1 or if it's an > isolated problem :) > > Craig -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.Received on Thu Jul 10 2003 - 14:34:38 UTC
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